Oral History of Agriculture Homepage

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Oral History of Illinois Agriculture

Welcome to the Oral History of Illinois Agriculture Homepage!

• The Illinois State Museum

• The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

• The University of Illinois at Springfield

• Northern Illinois University

are partnering with Randforce to present online, using Inter-Clipper software and open source MySQL database, more than 60 searchable audio interviews of Illinois farmers from the 1970s and 1980s, and more than 50 searchable video interviews taken in 2008.

This partnership project, The Oral History of Illinois Agriculture, is partially funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services Leadership Grant.

Use the navigation links to the left to view our progress so far. Learn about the Indexing methods, the search capabilities, and the applications of multimedia with oral history!